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Amazon is showing signs it may be ramping up its efforts in linear TV streaming, confirming longtime speculation about the tech giant’s evolving streaming strategy. Several postings for jobs at the company’s Prime Video division point to a bulked up effort to furnish Prime subscribers with live offerings. One of the…

The lure of streaming may be the ability to watch what you want on demand, but for sports and other programming best experienced live, Amazon Fire TV is introducing a new enhancement to its platform. The “Live” tab, which is currently rolling out on Fire devices and smart TVs, is next to “Home” in the main navigation…

In its latest annual study of TV viewing habits, Hub Entertainment Research found that more people seek out their favorite shows on Netflix than on live TV. Hub quizzed 1,700 regular TV viewers between 16 and 74 with broadband in their homes during the month of October about how they find and watch their favorite…

EXCLUSIVE: The concept of channel surfing appears to be going out with the tide. Rather than flipping on live TV to see what’s on, viewers are increasingly defaulting to on-demand sources like SVOD services, according to a new study by Hub Entertainment Research. In the latest edition of its annual “Decoding the…

  TV distributors will lose $4 billion in revenue because 6.5% of households in North America are accessing pirated live TV services each month, according to a new study by research firm Sandvine. While piracy remains a serious concern  for Hollywood–and hacks have hit premium-content players HBO and Netflix this year…